Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: October 11, 2019
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Engineering Cancer Cell Migration. DATE: Friday, October 11, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dr. Stephanie Fraley, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering Department, University of California-San Diego ABSTRACT: Metastasis is the primary cause of cancer related deaths. The migration of cancer cells from their tissue of origin to other tissues in the body […]
Date of the Event: October 4, 2019
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Mathematical Models of Targeted Cancer Treatments. DATE: Friday, October 4, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Dominik Wodarz, Ph.D,Professor of Theoretical/Mathematical Biology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine. ABSTRACT: The talk will discuss the use of mathematical models for understanding targeted cancer therapies. One area of focus […]
Date of the Event: September 27, 2019
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Machine Learning and Metagenomes. DATE: Friday, September 27, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Robert Edwards, Ph.D, Director of Biological & Medical Informatics, SDSU. ABSTRACT: Biology has become the big data science – the number of cells in our body exceeds the number of stars by several orders of magnitude – […]
Date of the Event: September 20, 2019
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Research Activities at the Laboratory of Advanced Experimental Fluid Dynamics at SDSU. DATE: Friday, September 20, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Xiaofeng Liu, Ph.D, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, SDSU. ABSTRACT: This talk presents an overview of the research activities being conducted at the Laboratory of Advanced Experimental Fluid Dynamics at […]
Date of the Event: September 13, 2019
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Toward Making Deterministic Solution of the Boltzmann Equation Practical. DATE: Friday, September 13, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Alexander Alekseenko, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, CSU Northridge. ABSTRACT: Believed to be most accurate description of gas at the microscopic scale, the kinetic Boltzmann equation provides theoretical underpinning to models […]
Date of the Event: September 6, 2019
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Understanding Cancer using Mechanics. DATE: Friday, September 6, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Parag Katira, Ph.D, Department of Mechanical Engineering, SDSU. ABSTRACT: Cancer is a disease rooted in genetic mutations that allow tumor cells to avoid normal cell death, divide uncontrollably and modify their microenvironment to avoid being targeted by […]
Date of the Event: May 10, 2019
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Quantifying Particle Departure from Axisymmetry in Multiphase Cylindrical Detonation. DATE: Friday, May 10th, 2019 TIME: 3:00 PM LOCATION: Donald P. Shiley Bioscience Center SPEAKER: M. Giselle Fernandez, Ph.D, Postdoctoral Researcher, X-Computational Physics-Verification and Analysis, Los Alamos National Laboratory. ABSTRACT: Dense layers of solid particles surrounding a high-energy explosive generate instabilities after detonation. […]
Date of the Event: May 3, 2019
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Opportunities for Faculty and Students Through Sustainable and Inclusive Pathways in Computational Science and Engineering. DATE: Friday, May 3rd, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Mary Ann Leung, Ph.D, Founder and President, Sustainable Horizons Institute. ABSTRACT: Finding your way through academics and a career in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) can […]
Date of the Event: April 26, 2019
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Connecting Microevolutionary Mechanisms to Macroevolutionary Processes in to Tackle the Tangled Bank Beyond the Tree in Computational Evolutionary Biology. DATE: Friday, April 26, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Jeet Sukumaran, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Biology Department, SDSU. ABSTRACT: Macroevolutionary models such as those used, for example, in biogeographical analysis, typically tend […]
Date of the Event: April 19, 2019
TITLE: CSRC Colloquium Multifunctional Cementitious Materials for Addressing Infrastructure Challenges. DATE: Friday, April 19, 2019 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS-314 SPEAKER: Mo Li, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California-Irvine. ABSTRACT: Today’s needs to improve concrete infrastructure service life and resilience are challenged by the intrinsic quasi-brittleness of concrete materials, […]